Four-year, age-adjusted incidence of cardiovascular events in men and women in the Framingham Study according to left ventricular mass determined by echocardiography. Subjects with increased left ventricular mass (far right panel) had a marked increase in cardiovascular risk.
LVH: left ventricular hypertrophy; CV: cardiovascular.
Adapted from: Levy D, Garrison RJ, Savage DD, et al. Prognostic implications of echocardiographically determined left ventricular mass in the Framingham Heart Study. N Engl J Med 1990; 322:1561.